Questioner: Guruji, this question arises from the difficulty I have with the concept of the Personal God, God with form and I ask myself what is that form? And then I understand from the things that you have said in the past that the Personal God, Ishvara, continues to exist during the present cycle of […]
"Let my love be measured by giving and not by gain"
A life dedicated to service
Biography
Gururaj was born and raised Parsotam Narshi Bhana in India. He lived most of his life beyond age 20 in Cape Town, South Africa. A brief synopsis of Gururaj's life up to age 44 is given below under chronology. Most pertinent, to this profile, is the
Teachings about Unconditional Love
Devotion to the beloved
Bhakti Yoga, the missing piece Bhakti, devotion to the beloved, compasion.. Different names to speak about the factor that transforms and changes the workings of the mind.
Other teachings about Ananda
Teachings about Ego
Fear of Death
We prefer the crumbs of our own individuality MURRAY: Why am I so afraid to die? GURURAJ: Death is the thing that should be least feared. The reason why people fear death primarily, there are secondary reasons as well, primarily is this that they do not want to lose their individuality. They would prefer the […]
More teachings about ego
The Seeker and the Path
Bring the attention to the center!
How many of us bring the attention to the center, to where it is still? That is the secret of life: to go beyond the polarities. Where there is mind, there are polarities. When we go beyond the mind we go beyond polarities, and center ourselves within ourselves. That is the area of joy and […]
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Other posts from Gururaj and his disciples
Gururaj Ananda Yogi
Gururaj was born and raised Parsotam Narshi Bhana in India. He lived most of his life beyond age 20 in Cape Town, South Africa. From age 44 until his demise, which he predicted, at age 56, he devoted himself to teaching groups of people, amounting to tens of thousands of students, the art of personalised […]
Non-attachment and detachment
Unattachment means that you, very willfully, want to be apart. You become indifferent; like the old saying, you can have a crowd of people around you, yet you are lonely. You withdraw within yourself, not because of strength, but because of imbalance between introversion and extroversion. Non-attachment is something totally different, where you are part […]